More posts about “wine”

Create desktop launchers for Wine apps easily with WLCreator

Zarko Zivanov dropped by the OMG! Ubuntu! inbox to spread word of a new tool he's made for easily creating launchers for WINE apps in Ubuntu.

13 February 2011

CodeWeavers unleashes new Windows Impersonator

CrossOver Impersonator, a Windows emulator, promises high performance for Unix/Linux systems. With Wine 1.3.9 under the hood, it raises the question: what differentiates this Wine based program from any other? We ordered a copy to find out.

29 January 2011

Play Angry Birds under wine on Linux

Rovio media have no plans to actually bring Angry Birds to Linux, with their previous statement it being something they were 'looking into' since translated as 'no plans at all.' Still, if you're an Angry Birds fan looking to get your feathery fix on Linux you still can - using everyone's favourite binary beverage 'Wine'.

17 January 2011

CEDEGA shutting down, GAMETREE LINUX born

Commercial Wine software 'Cedega' is to "cease operation" at the end of February, parent company TransGaming Inc. have today announced.

8 January 2011

Integrate Wine in Ubuntu with ‘Vineyard’

Decent Wine integration in Ubuntu is something many of us would love to have - and we can thanks to an application called 'Vineyard'. Vineyard provides two useful features: firstly it provides a native way to configure Wine and Wine preferences and secondly it creates tight integration between Wine and the Ubuntu desktop.

29 December 2010

Wine 1.3.9 brings beginnings of ActiveX support

Another week and another Wine development release. What has version 1.3.9 spilt out over the tablecloth we call the desktop?

12 December 2010

Wine 1.3.8 released

The weekly development release of Wine landed on Friday with the usual smattering of minor additions, bug fixes and improvements.

28 November 2010

Wine 1.3.7 Released with improved system tray support, fixes

Bang on schedule the latest Wine development release is now available for download/installation. New features in this release include: – Improved system tray support Better support for installers with assemblies GStreamer support fixes Many MSXML […]

14 November 2010

Easily get Wine apps to match your GTK theme

Nothing sucks more about running Wine applications in Ubuntu than the visual yell of "HEY! I'M NOT NATIVE!". The following tip is a quick and pain-free way to get Wine apps matching the look of the rest of your desktop.

26 October 2010

OMG! 5! – Five ways to make Wine apps feel native in Ubuntu

Applications running in Wine more often than not look like second-class citizens. That's no way to experience your OS - we're put together five tips for getting Wine applications looking, feeling & behaving like everything else on your desktop. In this OMG! 5! we take a look at five ways to improve the look and feel of Wine in Ubuntu.

1 September 2010

Add a neat little Wine app menu to your panel

Joe Lawrence sent us over this incredibly simple yet worthwhile tip for avid Wine users. Sourced specifically because ‘cool menus’ such as Cardapio don’t let you run easily launch Wine applications. He’s already written it […]

26 August 2010

Wine 1.3.1 Released

The latest development version of Wine 1.3.x has been released. Wine 1.3.1 sees everyone’s favourite none-an-emulator add: – Support for drag & drop between X11 and OLE. Support for favorites in builtin Internet Explorer. Beginnings of a […]

20 August 2010
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